Also, it looks like when a tag matched once, it will always remain, and cannot be reassigned from an abuse filter. This creates problems when the name of a tag is changed in an abuse filter, it won't be reassigned to the new name, new tagged edits are assigned to the first name (e.g. when Section blanking has been changed to section blanking on enwiki).

Maybe a way to solve the problem is being able to create tags on their own, delete them and rename them. Then one can choose a tag among the existing ones for an abuse filter.

However, tags which have been applied to edits should be shown in the interface, even if they are no longer applied. The solution to removing annoying old tags is to provide functionality for mass-removing and moving tags from edits, which is in another bug report.

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